Joy Carol’s Interview at Wesleyan University
Recently I enjoyed a week-long trip to Nebraska, my home state. I took a stroll down Memory Lane, visiting the farm where I was born, and my old farmhouse where I grew up, preaching in my church in Clatonia where my grandparents, parents, and I were baptized and confirmed, and re-connecting with lots of friends and cousins. It was an amazing, healing experience.
And then I had the privilege of returning to my beloved Wesleyan University which has been so good to me – where I earned an honorary doctorate of humanitarian letters, was the outstanding alum, served on the Board, and more.
While there, Wesleyan interviewed me about living fully and meaningfully into my life – no matter what I faced including my being disabled. They will use the video for education and inspiration for students, faculty, and alumni and might also use it for fundraising. It was a delight to make this YouTube video. I hope you will enjoy it also.
My beautiful farmhouse where I grew up 
The new owners of my beloved farmhouse
THANK YOU SO MUCH’
WE HAVE MISSED YOU.
WE KEEP YOU IN OUR PRAYERS.
MAY OUR FATHER BLESS AND KEEP YOU.
HAVE A BLESSED JOURNEY.
WE LOVE YOU.
B. AND A, C.
Thank you Joy and Sandy for this excellent interview. I am a friend from Penney Retirement Community in Penney Farms, Florida, who has known Joy only since she arrived there in 2014. I have worked with her on Social Concerns projects in which she has used her gifts of vision, and relational skills to reach out across diverse boundaries, creating a rich and meaningful program. Our retirement community church has been blessed by her counseling, musical, discernment, and pastoral skills. But most of all, as a retired Physical Therapist myself, I am aware that she has been a model to us all by not allowing those few things she can not do to keep her from traveling, driving a car, and using her skills to live fully. In fact she may be the most traveled and active person on our campus. She is truly an inspiration to so many of her friends, not only around the country, but around the world, where she keeps up contact through phone and internet. She is an inspiration to all who know her! Lowey (Lois) Dickason